In his essays on poetry, the poet and translator Joze Udovic (1912-1986) emphasized the changed role of metaphors in modern poetry. This article discusses his views on modern imagery, compares ...various definitions of absolute metaphors and conceits (Germ, kühne Metaphern), and concludes by analyzing selected metaphors from Udovic's collection Ogledalo sanj (The Mirror of Dreams) and showing where their conceitedness actually lies. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
The paper compares Kosovel's manuscript »Krvaveci vrelec« with the versions edited by Anton Ocvirk (1974) and Neza Zajc (2013), highlighting discrepancies, blunders and lapsus lecturae. Their ...correction allowed to identify the source of the collage elements of the first stanza in a single number of the Slovenian liberal daily Jutro, released on Thursday, February 11, 1926, a few months before the poet's death. The second stanza is a sarcastic rhetorical question, referred to the government crisis, which loomed because of claims for ethnic autonomy put forward by the head of the Croatian Peasant Party, Stjepan Radic, seconded by Anton Korosec, the head of the Slovenian leading clerical party, against the government headed by the centralist Serb Nikola Pasic. This threat promptly waned because of the submissive capitulation of the promoters themselves, as clearly implied by the poet himself, a staunch supporter of Balkan federalism based on the right of peoples to self-determination. This dating proves that constructivism was the last evolutionary stage in Kosovel's poetry. The image of the bleeding jet solidifying into a radiant »vivid red ruby obelisk« in the third stanza finally echoes the similar image of »eine zuckende Blutsäule«, used by the German expressionist poet Ludwig Rubiner (1881-1920), the author of the anthology »Kameraden der Menschheit / Dichtungen zur Weltrevolution« (1919), a hitherto neglected source of inspiration for Kosovebs poetry. The paper finally proposes a psychoanalytic interpretation of the lapsus lecturae that led Anton Ocvirk to read the word Falzifikatorska in the manuscript as Fabrobikoborska, and identifies its unconscious drives in the early ideological divide that opposed the two young men during the last months of the poet's life. It culminated in 1928 with Ocvirk's letter of overt reactionary and obscurantist denunciation sent to the Catholic daily Slovenec, meant to denigrate Kosovel's memory as well as his closest friends and spiritual heirs who ran the leftist monthly Mladina. This divide was pointed out by Kosovel's friend Ivo Grahor in his two reviews of the collection of Kosovel's poems edited by Ocvirk in 1931.
This article outlines the political and philosophical context of the development of Slovenian experimental poetry during the 1960s, and links the concept of the linguistic turn to problematizing the ...referential function in modern poetry. In determining the meanings of the type of experimental poetry that uses words as its main means of expression, one must take into account two extremes: the traditional view on language (according to which words reflect reality) on the one hand, and the complete loss of referential function on the other. Words cannot be ascribed a meaning when they cannot be linked to referents (which occurs in the case of fabricated words), when their use or the play in which they are included cannot be identified (due to syntactic irregularities or semantic anomalies), or when the meaning is deferred because Derrida's play of signifiers is at the forefront. The four Slovenian poets discussed in this article in terms of experimental poetry dealt with the language issue with various intensity. The referential function was absolutely rejected by Iztok Geister and Niko Grafenauer in their poetry studies texts; Franci Zagoricnik rejected it most radically in his glossolalic poetic texts, whereas Tomaz Salamun merely indicated the potential linguistic turn. Geister's exploration of the semantic links between words that are free of conventional usage is substantiated in his criticism of humanism. Grafenauer began creating emotionally charged structures because he rejected the sense and reestablished poetry as an autonomous aesthetic phenomenon; his poems can be ascribed a social-critical role, just like Zagoricnik's experiments and, last but not least, Salamun's poetry of fragments. What the four poets have in common is their distance from the modern world of consumption and false ideologies, rather than the modes and radicality of their linguistic turns.
The monograph Iz kaosa kozmos (From Chaos to Cosmos) and the first two books from the Poezija konteksta (Poetry of Context) series explore the poetry created during the period of the Slovenian ...resistance movement and the related revolution during the Second World War (1941-1945). The third and fourth book analyze the poetry created by Slovenians who in the Second World War were forcefully drafted into the German army~Slovenians who lived in the period of the Italian occupation of the Slovenian territory under the 1920 Treaty of Rapallo~and those who were mobilized into the Italian army during WWII.
Odcarani svet Boza Voduska Bernik, France
Primerjalna književnost,
12/2012, Volume:
35, Issue:
3
Journal Article
This article discusses a literary phenomenon that is oriented utterly subjectively in terms of the concept and content, even though as a whole it is not alienated from the given time and space. When ...it was published, it aroused a number of varied emotional responses. This is also undoubtedly because it was precisely during this time that the author's personal identity was changing and changed. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Kosovel in nadrealizem Vrecko, Janez
Primerjalna književnost,
12/2011, Volume:
34, Issue:
3
Journal Article
This article takes issue with the hypotheses that tried to connect Kosovel only to Italian futurism or with surrealism, and shows that their authors were not familiar with constructivist poetics. ...This means they consciously ignore the numerous places in Kosovel's work that reflect his thorough knowledge of Russian and Berlin constructivism. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926) died too young to publish a collection of poetry. He left only a wealth of manuscripts, most of which are hardly legible. Therefore Anton Ocvirk needed decades to decipher ...Kosovel's manuscripts and collect and publish his collected work. But after a thorough review of Kosovel manuscripts it became clear that some poems were missing in Ocvirk's edition. They are now critically presented in this book.
Using the approaches of semiotics and text linguistics, Žerjal-Pavlin’s monograph deals with Slovenian lyrical cycles from romanticism to postmodernism. They are understood as secondary texts ...composed of primary texts with the intention of expanding the horizons of the textual world and, within them, further intertextually supplementing the meanings of individual texts, thereby generating a new semantic potential of the cyclic whole. Due to the intersubjectivity of textual criteria and dynamic conventions of the literary system, the lyrical cycle cannot be defined with precision. Several variables are in play: intra- and intertextual coherence, the title and the outer form, and literary conventions (such as poetry collections). Two types of the cyclic composition are distinguished: the syntagmatic and paradigmatic, the former tending towards the epical. In the first variety, the elements are arranged either in a narrative manner or they treat the theme thorugh causal relationships between the poems. The cycles of the paradigmatic type use variation to express the same theme or motive in different perspectives or contexts. The monograph also addresses problems in distinguishing the lyric cycle from the lyric poem, the sonnet wreath, and similar supra-textual compositions.
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